Well, now we have the laws in place I will start by reporting/. for causing harm to my religious beliefs. Purple is a colour that is an insult to our religious members, so all sites using the colour purple will be assumed as intending to cause harm to our people. Green is a tolerated colour, being Irish and all.
Well the problem is that we aren't "climbing out of this mess" if anything, things are getting worse. The problem is that people naively thought that electin Obama would improve things. The truth is that the government does what the people allow it to do. Bush was a warning sign that the checks and balances that were supposed to restrain the federal governments' power are essentially destroyed. The conditions that allowed Bush to frak up this country as bad as he did still exist. Now is it any wonder why the "change we can believe in" didn't happen as people believed it would?
Change is rarely fast, requires work and environment that allows it to happen. Imagine you had put on 100Lbs (~45Kg) and you decided it was time to do something about it, then you need to consider:
- it took you time to put on that weight, so it will take time to take it off
- you have to continue making the effort to reduce the habit
- when all your friends are making it hard to lose weight, then it will be even harder
Bush was in power for 8 years and where are today is the accumulation of what Bush did and what was already in place before he and his cronies got there. To be disappointed that Obama, or any person, hasn't solved these problems in the last year is hard, especially when you consider there are a lot of people with invested interests out there.
When ever I think of the book being replaced by its digital equivalent, I think of a scenario 200 years from now after a war destroys a whole nation. The people coming in to see what they can find a library with eBook readers and paper books. The paper books are still a little dusty, but everything on that civilisation up to the first decade of the 21st century is documented and available. The eBook readers on the other hand are another story, with publisher no longer in existence and DRM still in place, the content simply complains that the book can't be read dues to "text license expiry". 200 years of information on this society has now been lost to the sands of time.
Certainly this scenario is a little negative and could occur for other reasons, but the point I am trying to make is that convenience makes for a shitty legacy, especially with DRM in place.
I know some people are going to come in with the defence "but the Firefox performance issues are due to certain extensions". This may be the case, but if extensions are such an important part of a given application, then it better know how to deal with those causing issues, by either sand boxing them or disabling them if they are detected to cause issues. I am not claiming that this is something easy to do, and it in fact it is probably hard, but the fact is you don't open the Pandora box and not expect it to bite you at some point in time.
My current gripe with the Firefox extensions is that there is no way to work out which one is causing my performance issues, beyond a slow and systematic remove and add.
You know GSM? Yeah, Nokia did most of the work there based on another standard they mostly developed with Ericsson, NMT. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia#Involvement_in_GSM As GSM was published in 1990, I suppose they may have a patent or ten in that area from the last 20 years.
Certainly, but these patents are surely part of the GSM license which Apple paid for from the GSM Association? It would seem really odd for Apple to pay a fortune for a license, that does not cover any of the required patents.
You are aware that Nokia has been around since the 19th century and have a much larger patent portfolio than Apple, right? Nokia's amount of R&D dwarfs the amount Apple does.
That might be the case, but only patents filed in the past 20 years are relevant (20 years being generally the longest period for a patent, in any country). For this reason what matters is not how much innovation a company had done since their existence, but how much it has been innovating and filing in the past 20 years.
Nah, it fascist Harper's government. You guys had to put up with Bush for 10 years, while we get this Harper guy. The sad thing is the alternatives aren't much better.
My point is really that it's annoying to be hassled about spelling on the net where it doesn't really matter and spelling differs from place to place anyway. A complete english language education should have a bit of shakespear and chaucer to get rid of that silly fourth grade spelling bee obsession - but sadly in much of the USA it doesn't get that far.
And then add to that the language is "English" and not "American", so technically the English should get first shout on acceptable spelling.
I have always wondered where the TGVs of North America are, linking the city centers of major cities? In the USA I can at least think of Atlanta - New York - Boston and in Canada I can think of Quebec city - Montreal - Toronto. All though they are not immune to terrorist attacks, the focus appears to be in the air and if you use the French TGV design where the bogies are between the carriages, then you have less chance of a catastrophic accident in case of derailment.
I don't want to sound negative, but until we have a single stage ground to orbit reusable vehicle, this probably won't happen. The shuttle had the right general idea, but failed for numerous reasons and it also was not a single stage ground to orbit vehicle. One of those issues was the re-entry, which damaged the heat shield tiles requiring a large number of man hours to inspect and replace, and another was that it took for ever to get readied again for launch. There are technologies being researched that will resolve these issues, but they are far from ready.
Even if we consider a rocket based solution to the two week window, we have to consider whether the cost can be justified and whether safety can be maintained. These are two things that are of importance to the public funding the program and to organisations putting their precious payload on top of the rocket. The other question to ask is whether we have enough backlog to have a well managed two week window. I would be curious to know how many space programs NASA has delayed because of rocket wait time and how much more space is their for yet another non maintainable orbiting satellite.
Not saying that portability isn't a good thing, but a lot of people seem to be thinking that OpenCL will solve all your portability problems. It won't. It only will let code run on multiple architectures. You'll still have to more or less hand optimize to the architecture.
Like the argument of assembler vs C, I think as time goes on we will find ourselves with code that can do a better job of optimising the code for a specific processing core, given a block of OpenCL code than the programmer. Sure there will always be specific cased where the programmer can do a better job, but most programmers IMHO would rather write portable code and let the optimisation left to code which does a better than them - for reasons of lack of intrinsic knowledge and time.
The question is whether the editing will happen directly with the 'compressed' streams or whether it will need to convert it to something akin to DV first?
That said, I haven't been overly impressed with its performance. Strange crashes, glitchy files, etc.
Yup, it uses more CPU than it needs to, but at least it provides the support for various video formats that my files are in. Some of these issues are to blame on ffmpeg and others are purely on VLC. What would really be nice is if someone could implement some codecs using blocks, even if it is at this point purely to find out if this a) makes a notable difference in performance and b) provides code that is still cross-platform.
An operating system is more than just the kernel. An operating system is the software which provides the basis for everything else that will run in that environment - at least that is the way I perceive it. Given this description Android is an operating system, since it provides the base environment for everything else to run.
What ever can be said for desktop OSs, embedded and mobile OSs probably win for being amongst some of the ugliest OSs. Given that few of them are intended for anything beyond a single use solution, is can be understood.
The issue for me has always been Windows Mobile (aka Windows CE), since this was designed for a larger market, where thoughtful design would have been good. Instead Windows Mobile was essentially a desktop OS shoe horned into a handheld device, for which the UI was ill suited, not taking into account the unique design and usage issue of such a device. This is why OSs such as the iPhone/iPod Touch OS and Android had such an impact on destroying the Windows Mobile market.
This is why it would be nice for providers to indicate there is a limit and then give you a choice of how you handle going over the limit, such as throttling, cutting off until the end of the month or paying extra. If I knew I was limited and that I was in control of how my limit is handled, then I would feel comfortable with the choice I made. Personally either of the former two would suit me.
Phone companies have no interest in supplying phones that allow you to use information (over their pipes) as efficiently as possible. The more you are online, the more it costs them in infrastructure. They have have to appear minimally better than their competition.
Traditionally this has been the case, but for carries that don't offer "unlimited" data, there is an interest to encourage you to make the most of data usage. Data is the new voice.
There are no secrets that VLC makes use of the CPU for all its work. If any work can be made to offloading work to other processing units, then this would be a great new feature. Whether this is done directly with FFMPEG of with VLC doesn't matter, since VLC would benefit in both cases, but other projects would benefit from the latter.
I am thinking of at least starting with blocks and making use of llvm.
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Hoarding of scarce v4's undeniably aggravates the shortage almost by definition.
And asking said entities to return unused blocks is like asking the government to return unused tax money. In other words: good luck with that.
A 4-bit year field? Wrapping from 9 to 0 (16) ?
I should hope not, otherwise it shows that either people forgot about Y2K very fast or underestimated the issues of their short-sightedness.
Well, now we have the laws in place I will start by reporting /. for causing harm to my religious beliefs. Purple is a colour that is an insult to our religious members, so all sites using the colour purple will be assumed as intending to cause harm to our people. Green is a tolerated colour, being Irish and all.
Well the problem is that we aren't "climbing out of this mess" if anything, things are getting worse. The problem is that people naively thought that electin Obama would improve things. The truth is that the government does what the people allow it to do. Bush was a warning sign that the checks and balances that were supposed to restrain the federal governments' power are essentially destroyed. The conditions that allowed Bush to frak up this country as bad as he did still exist. Now is it any wonder why the "change we can believe in" didn't happen as people believed it would?
Change is rarely fast, requires work and environment that allows it to happen. Imagine you had put on 100Lbs (~45Kg) and you decided it was time to do something about it, then you need to consider:
- it took you time to put on that weight, so it will take time to take it off
- you have to continue making the effort to reduce the habit
- when all your friends are making it hard to lose weight, then it will be even harder
Bush was in power for 8 years and where are today is the accumulation of what Bush did and what was already in place before he and his cronies got there. To be disappointed that Obama, or any person, hasn't solved these problems in the last year is hard, especially when you consider there are a lot of people with invested interests out there.
When ever I think of the book being replaced by its digital equivalent, I think of a scenario 200 years from now after a war destroys a whole nation. The people coming in to see what they can find a library with eBook readers and paper books. The paper books are still a little dusty, but everything on that civilisation up to the first decade of the 21st century is documented and available. The eBook readers on the other hand are another story, with publisher no longer in existence and DRM still in place, the content simply complains that the book can't be read dues to "text license expiry". 200 years of information on this society has now been lost to the sands of time.
Certainly this scenario is a little negative and could occur for other reasons, but the point I am trying to make is that convenience makes for a shitty legacy, especially with DRM in place.
I know exactly what you mean: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfjqMuR8oYo
I know some people are going to come in with the defence "but the Firefox performance issues are due to certain extensions". This may be the case, but if extensions are such an important part of a given application, then it better know how to deal with those causing issues, by either sand boxing them or disabling them if they are detected to cause issues. I am not claiming that this is something easy to do, and it in fact it is probably hard, but the fact is you don't open the Pandora box and not expect it to bite you at some point in time.
My current gripe with the Firefox extensions is that there is no way to work out which one is causing my performance issues, beyond a slow and systematic remove and add.
You know GSM? Yeah, Nokia did most of the work there based on another standard they mostly developed with Ericsson, NMT. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia#Involvement_in_GSM As GSM was published in 1990, I suppose they may have a patent or ten in that area from the last 20 years.
Certainly, but these patents are surely part of the GSM license which Apple paid for from the GSM Association? It would seem really odd for Apple to pay a fortune for a license, that does not cover any of the required patents.
There is a solution, join together and buy these T-shirts:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/unisex/itdepartment/388b/
go into work and then indicate you were happy with the uniform idea.
There will probably be multiple reasons for not being asked to wear a uniform the next day.
I clicked the link and got six sentences. Is this what qualifies as slashdot newsworthy these days?
So you're the one reading the articles!
You are aware that Nokia has been around since the 19th century and have a much larger patent portfolio than Apple, right? Nokia's amount of R&D dwarfs the amount Apple does.
That might be the case, but only patents filed in the past 20 years are relevant (20 years being generally the longest period for a patent, in any country). For this reason what matters is not how much innovation a company had done since their existence, but how much it has been innovating and filing in the past 20 years.
Do you mean in Soviet Canada?
Nah, it fascist Harper's government. You guys had to put up with Bush for 10 years, while we get this Harper guy. The sad thing is the alternatives aren't much better.
My point is really that it's annoying to be hassled about spelling on the net where it doesn't really matter and spelling differs from place to place anyway. A complete english language education should have a bit of shakespear and chaucer to get rid of that silly fourth grade spelling bee obsession - but sadly in much of the USA it doesn't get that far.
And then add to that the language is "English" and not "American", so technically the English should get first shout on acceptable spelling.
I have always wondered where the TGVs of North America are, linking the city centers of major cities? In the USA I can at least think of Atlanta - New York - Boston and in Canada I can think of Quebec city - Montreal - Toronto. All though they are not immune to terrorist attacks, the focus appears to be in the air and if you use the French TGV design where the bogies are between the carriages, then you have less chance of a catastrophic accident in case of derailment.
Papermongers hate google, because no one wants their wares anymore, much as I'm sure horse breeders hated Henry Ford.
And those that are liked are probably reached directly by means of a bookmark.
I don't want to sound negative, but until we have a single stage ground to orbit reusable vehicle, this probably won't happen. The shuttle had the right general idea, but failed for numerous reasons and it also was not a single stage ground to orbit vehicle. One of those issues was the re-entry, which damaged the heat shield tiles requiring a large number of man hours to inspect and replace, and another was that it took for ever to get readied again for launch. There are technologies being researched that will resolve these issues, but they are far from ready.
Even if we consider a rocket based solution to the two week window, we have to consider whether the cost can be justified and whether safety can be maintained. These are two things that are of importance to the public funding the program and to organisations putting their precious payload on top of the rocket. The other question to ask is whether we have enough backlog to have a well managed two week window. I would be curious to know how many space programs NASA has delayed because of rocket wait time and how much more space is their for yet another non maintainable orbiting satellite.
Not saying that portability isn't a good thing, but a lot of people seem to be thinking that OpenCL will solve all your portability problems. It won't. It only will let code run on multiple architectures. You'll still have to more or less hand optimize to the architecture.
Like the argument of assembler vs C, I think as time goes on we will find ourselves with code that can do a better job of optimising the code for a specific processing core, given a block of OpenCL code than the programmer. Sure there will always be specific cased where the programmer can do a better job, but most programmers IMHO would rather write portable code and let the optimisation left to code which does a better than them - for reasons of lack of intrinsic knowledge and time.
For running legacy apps that were developed between the release of CUDA and the release of OpenCL. There aren't many, I'd guess.
Sounds like there is great potential for a tool that will convert CUDA to OpenCL.
The question is whether the editing will happen directly with the 'compressed' streams or whether it will need to convert it to something akin to DV first?
That said, I haven't been overly impressed with its performance. Strange crashes, glitchy files, etc.
Yup, it uses more CPU than it needs to, but at least it provides the support for various video formats that my files are in. Some of these issues are to blame on ffmpeg and others are purely on VLC. What would really be nice is if someone could implement some codecs using blocks, even if it is at this point purely to find out if this a) makes a notable difference in performance and b) provides code that is still cross-platform.
An operating system is more than just the kernel. An operating system is the software which provides the basis for everything else that will run in that environment - at least that is the way I perceive it. Given this description Android is an operating system, since it provides the base environment for everything else to run.
What ever can be said for desktop OSs, embedded and mobile OSs probably win for being amongst some of the ugliest OSs. Given that few of them are intended for anything beyond a single use solution, is can be understood.
The issue for me has always been Windows Mobile (aka Windows CE), since this was designed for a larger market, where thoughtful design would have been good. Instead Windows Mobile was essentially a desktop OS shoe horned into a handheld device, for which the UI was ill suited, not taking into account the unique design and usage issue of such a device. This is why OSs such as the iPhone/iPod Touch OS and Android had such an impact on destroying the Windows Mobile market.
This is why it would be nice for providers to indicate there is a limit and then give you a choice of how you handle going over the limit, such as throttling, cutting off until the end of the month or paying extra. If I knew I was limited and that I was in control of how my limit is handled, then I would feel comfortable with the choice I made. Personally either of the former two would suit me.
Phone companies have no interest in supplying phones that allow you to use information (over their pipes) as efficiently as possible. The more you are online, the more it costs them in infrastructure. They have have to appear minimally better than their competition.
Traditionally this has been the case, but for carries that don't offer "unlimited" data, there is an interest to encourage you to make the most of data usage. Data is the new voice.
There are no secrets that VLC makes use of the CPU for all its work. If any work can be made to offloading work to other processing units, then this would be a great new feature. Whether this is done directly with FFMPEG of with VLC doesn't matter, since VLC would benefit in both cases, but other projects would benefit from the latter.
I am thinking of at least starting with blocks and making use of llvm.